Colston's School to change its name amid slave trader association

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The Bristol school was set up in 1710 by Edward Colston, whose statue was torn down last year.

A school named after the slave trader Edward Colston is to change its name.

In a statement, school officials said the name remained unchanged for more than 300 years, but it was not intended to "glorify or celebrate" the slave trader.It said: "This school was not named after Colston, rather it was named by Colston. More than 2,500 people responded to the survey, with more than 1,000 responses from the public being in favour of retaining the name.

 

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Smoke and mirrors. We are so wrapped up in worrying about the rights of people from 300 years ago that we are ignoring what’s happening today. 40million people are in slavery today our efforts should be in freedom for them.

Ffs

Look around there are alot of monuments, buildings you need to change names or pull down. Britain was a colonial master for many years massacring and plundering its former colonies.

welcome to 1984.

How ridiculous

This is happining because the local council is run by Labour. They are that spiteful about not getting into power that there going for the history vain. Showing there true colours there Labour. This would never happen in a Tory run council.

We should also divest our ourselves of our slavery-associated monarchy.

but it still doesn't change the way it came into existence via the wealth gained from slavery! there's a Tory sitting MP with plantations in Carribbean with them being held from around 1600s

History should remain history! Educate and learn….this is how we evolve our societies. By changing names and trying to eradicate such references from history we are effectively ‘White washing’ the past of such atrocities and ultimately denying they happened!

Can we also change the name of the United Kingdom to the Disunited Kingdom in view of the connection with the ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern

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